Illuminates the cross-border migration and settlement of Catholics from Canada to northern New York.Catholics across Borders examines the evolution of a French-speaking population in Plattsburgh over a century. Contrasting with New England's francophone textile mill centers, Plattsburgh featured interethnic cooperation instead of conflict. The book explores how international events affected French Catholic identity at the local level, drawing from French-l...

On December 7, 1941, Keiko Tanaka finds her whole world affected by the Pearl Harbor bombings. Normally friendly neighbors are suddenly suspicious of her Japanese ancestry, and her engagement to James Armstrong—a Caucasian—becomes a crisis rather than a celebration. Despite their parents' protests, Keiko and James decide to marry before she is sent to the internment camps and he to the war. Nearly sixty years later, Keiko's daughter, Kazuko—born in the camps—attends to Keiko on her deathbe...

A new sci-fi thriller from New York Times bestselling authors Andrews & WilsonKody Vanzant thought he left the Secret Service behind—until an old friend confronts him with an offer he can’t refuse. Literally.Now Kody is trapped in the Pythias Project, a quantum bracelet forcing him to relive the same deadly day until he stops a presidential assassination. Every reset brings new clues. Every failure ends in death. To break the loop, Kody must solve ...

Book 1: Immerse yourself in a tale of triumph and tragedy with “The Sport of the Gods by Paul Laurence Dunbar.” Dunbar's narrative explores the complexities of life, success, and tragedy, offering readers a poignant reflection on the human experience.Book 2: Embark on a linguistic exploration with “Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget.” Roget's comprehensive language resource provides a wealth...

**Brought to you by Penguin.Wildly irreverent and beautifully warm, this is a story about practice, competence and failure, told through tales in a world most of us never see.**'Life is worth regular examination. I have found a great deal of meaning in learning to make things. Each of us has tidbits of understanding that others might appreciate were we to share them. As a carpenter building high-end homes for New York City's richest, I work on multi-million dollar projects ...

When an undercover police officer is killed and a deadly shipment of pure heroin hits land, it looks as though the operation to bring down Brighton's biggest drug dealer is compromised. But the investigation is in more trouble than either Detective Sergeant Minter or his boss, Tom Beckett, could ever imagine.Embarking on a bloody journey that will set him on a collision course with his team, Minter is pulled back into his own troubled past - to a childhood spent in care and the vic...

If you want to learn French without having to relocate to a French-speaking country for months or even years, then keep reading.... Learning a new language can seem difficult, if not impossible, at the very beginning. If you’re an adult, then it probably seems even scarier. You may have had a bad experience trying to learn a second language in school. It’s easier than you think. You’re not going to pull out your hair while learning French. It won’t be long until you amaze your friends and ...

If you don't know Melville's letters to Hawthorne, you don't know Melville. These letters are full of passion, humor, doubt, and spiritual yearning, and offer an intimate view of Melville's personality. Lyrical and effusive, they are literary works in themselves. This correspondence has been out of print for decades, and even when it was in print it appeared in scholarly volumes of Melville's complete correspondence, aimed at the academy. The Divine Magnet provide...

Mamah Borthwick was an energetic, intelligent, and charismatic woman who earned a master's degree at a time when few women even attended college, translated writings by a key figure of the early feminist movement, and taught at one of Germany's best schools for boys. She is best known, however, as the mistress of the famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and for her shocking murder at the renowned Wisconsin home he built for her, Taliesin. A Brave and Lovely Woman offers a...

Today, lawyers and clients devote a great deal of time, effort, and expense to discovery. More often than not, discovery, and not trial, is the central battleground of a case. Most civil lawsuits in federal court end before trial, either by pretrial settlement or on dispositive motion. In either case, the fruits of discovery can be critical to the outcome. The need for analytical and strategic guidance on problems in discovery is heightened by the fact that much of it is handled by relativ...

This book is the story of the author written to inspire everyone who is in struggle or who is losing hope in life.

In a book that has become a modern classic of social movement organizing, Mark and Paul Engler explain that there is a craft to uprising—and that this craft can change the world.From protests around climate change and immigrant rights, to #BlackLivesMatter and movements to defend democracy, a new generation is unleashing strategic nonviolent action to shape public debate and force political change. While mass movements are often portrayed as spontaneous and unpredi...